Software Santa

Title: Stellarium is a Fantastic, Realistic, home Planetarium (Windows or Mac or Linux)
Post by: Software Santa on January 01, 2007, 05:44:17 PM

Stellarium: Tour the Universe from your Armchair with Stellarium (Windows or Mac or Linux)

(http://www.stellarium.org/img/screenshots/0.10-planets.jpg)

(https://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/latest/download)

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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

* over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue with info * asterisms and illustrations of the constellations * images of nebulae * realistic Milky Way * very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset * the planets and their satellites

interface:

* a powerful zoom * time control * multilingual interface * scripting to record and play your own shows * fisheye projection for planetarium domes * spheric mirror projection for your own dome * graphical interface and extensive keyboard control * telescope control